Security & Strategic Review - April 2019

Mexico: Will AMLO avoid the Trump trap?

For at least three years Donald Trump has attacked and vilified Mexico and the Mexicans. It is an electoral strategy that works for an important section of his supporters, and isn’t likely to end soon. For about four months on the other hand, Mexico’s popular new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has studiously avoided responding in kind. How long can AMLO’s unrequited offer of “love and peace” continue?